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A portrait of Jagannath Sunkersett in a turban, above the towers and domes of a Bombay railway terminus, with his name in Hindi and English, on a ₹2 stamp.
Jagannath Sunkersett
India Post issued this ₹2 stamp on 15 February 1991, on the 125th anniversary of his death. Born in Bombay on 10 February 1803 to a wealthy family, Nana Shankarshet helped set up the J. J. School of Art, the Prince Albert Museum and Victoria Gardens. He formed the first Bombay Steam Navigation Company and the Inland Railway Association, which led to the Great Indian Peninsula Railway, of which he became one of the first Indian directors. He died on 31 July 1865.
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